…outreach work. This is so that low- and modest-income families know which schools they can apply to and where they are entitled to free transport. Read the letter online here….
Rosamund Urwin: £926 a month – the cost of being an unpaid intern
Evening Standard columnist Rosamund Urwin reflects on the Sutton Trust interns research. It’s easy to collect internship horror stories. A friend who works on the ultra-competitive creative side in advertising…
£5500 – the cost of being an intern for six months
…can set them back hundreds of pounds a month. This means people from ‘modest backgrounds’ are being shut out of competitive industries as they’re having to fork out hundreds in…
Fairness for interns
…caps on student numbers, it is likely this competition will intensify in the years to come. Despite the expansion of highly-qualified candidates, only 42 per cent of employers and young…
Unpaid internships cost graduates at least £5,556
…their typical bills for rent, transport and subsistence while they work for free. It found a third of all internships are unpaid despite a groundswell of public and political opinion…
Unpaid internships ‘closed to all but the super-rich’
…in highly-competitive professions such as journalism, politics and law, it was claimed. The Sutton Trust, a social mobility charity, warned that poorer graduates may be missing out on good jobs…